In instances of unknown personnel, it is highly unusual for Rust to go to the trouble of listing someone who is not playing, but apparently here he felt the need to quash the idea that Keppard is the Ragmuffin cornetist.

Bottle" Stoner [Henry Stoner] imagines a different scenario, in which the cornetist on the Ragmuffins is so drunk that he could be anybody, including Keppard:

The cornetist is so bad, that if he normally played like that he would never have gotten this job.

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